The Philosopher's Circle

Professor and Author John Kaag tells us how William James can save your life1

John is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute. He just finished Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life, which was published with Princeton in spring of 2020. John lives with his partner Kathy and their two lovely children, Becca and Henry. He is currently finishing Love's Conditions, the third in the trilogy after American Philosophy and Hiking with Nietzsche, and he is also working on Think Again: An Introduction to Philosophy for Norton and American Blood for Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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The Hero's journey

we chat with Professor Edith Hall about the relevance of Aristotle in today's world

Edith Hall is a British scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and Professor in the Department of Classics and Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College, London

We chat with Professor Barkman's book on imitating saints and superheros

Adam Barkman (PhD, Free University of Amsterdam) is the author and editor of eleven books, most recently A Critical Companion to James Cameron (Lexington, 2018) and Making Sense of Islamic Art & Architecture (Thames & Hudson, 2015). Barkman is internationally-recognized for his work on the philosophy of C. S. Lewis, world religions and philosophies, and aesthetics (the philosophy of film). Like Tennyson’s Ulysses, Barkman is passionate about “following knowledge like a sinking star,” and spends a lot of his time reading, traveling and questioning. But there is nothing he enjoys more than spending time with his wife and five children